States Split Over Purdue’s $12 Billion Opioid Epidemic Settlement Plan September 12, 2019 By Erik Larson and Katherine Doherty Purdue Pharma LP, maker of the highly addictive Oxycontin painkiller, is pitting state against state with its offer of about...
Hometown Jury Says J&J Must Pay $37.2 Million for Cancers Linked to Baby Powder September 12, 2019 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson must pay at least $37.2 million to four consumers who blamed asbestos-tainted talc for their cancers in...
AXA XL Partners with Insurtech Neptune Flood to Expand Private Flood Insurance September 12, 2019 AXA XL is partnering with digital private flood insurance program manager Neptune Flood in a strategic underwriting partnership that will...
Liberty Mutual Appoints Perez as Chief Underwriting Officer, North America September 11, 2019 Liberty Mutual Insurance has appointed David Perez to the post of chief underwriting officer, North America, for its Global Risk...
States Take Aim at SEC’s New Broker-Dealer Adviser Rule September 11, 2019 By Erik Larson New York and a half dozen other states accused the Securities and Exchange Commission of botching a final regulation intended...
Judge: Facebook ‘Could Not Be More Wrong’ in Cambridge Analytica Defense September 11, 2019 By Joel Rosenblatt Facebook Inc. users suing over the social network’s worst-ever privacy scandal gained leverage to pry into its internal records to...
Conservative TV Channel Sues MSNBC’s Maddow for Calling It ‘Paid Propaganda’ September 11, 2019 A conservative television network has sued MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for more than $10 million for calling it “paid Russian propaganda.”...
FEMA Officials Arrested on Fraud Charges Linked to Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria Aid September 11, 2019 By Michael Deibert Federal Emergency Management Agency officials who oversaw the reconstruction of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid and the former president of Cobra...
The Remaking of Disgrace Insurance September 10, 2019 By Andrew G. Simpson As co-founder and chief executive officer of the predictive analytics firm Spotted, Janet Comenos knows a lot about famous actors,...
New Ironshore Environmental App Offers Real-Time Incident Alerts, Reporting September 10, 2019 Ironshore Environmental introduced IronResponse, a smartphone app that allows risk managers real-time access to claims professionals upon immediate notice of...